# Will the disparity of weath distribution destroy America?

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**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-disparity-of-weath-distribution-destroy-america/578068 "2011-04-12T09:28:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-disparity-of-weath-distribution-destroy-america/578068/184 "2011-04-30T12:16:14Z")

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> [@Le\_Jacquelope](#):
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> _sigh_ Wrong again.
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> Plenty of important people and things get discounted easily. That’s why stuff goes wrong so often - a seemingly unimportant or oft-neglected thing goes boom and shit gets broke.
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> Like I said, take away the working drones. Now how does Bill Gates design and build Windows 8 AND get it to market? Automate everything. Now who has any money to buy anything? Can’t answer that, can you?
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> You have yet to support your claim that “wealth was built by 1 in 100”. That was an incredibly insane statement that you’re now stuck with trying to defend.

These are terrible examples you are providing. The guy designing software for Microsoft or running the marketing for a multi-billion dollar company are part of the 1% (or at least the top 5-10%). They aren’t part of the 99% pool of interchangable carbon blobs.

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